The people's weekly (1946-12-14)

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VOL. XXVII, No. 16

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LABOR INCREASED

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U. President’s

Denial of

Ban Mystifies Students

Public denial by President Robert Newton of the University of
Alberta, that the formation of a C.C.F. Club on the Alberta campus
had been’ banned, deepens the mystery of the official thumbs down

attitude toward political clubs.

Harold Bronson, one of the University students who was active
in the formation of the branch of the Co-operative Commonwealth
University Federation, was notified by letter from an official source
that the ban existed or had been imposed.

The letter received by Mr. Bronson contained the following
paragraph: “I have mentioned to Dr. Warren, the Provost, that

a C.C.F. Club was in the process

of formation. ...He... raised

the question of the attitude of the Board of Governors. He thought

it wise to consult the

President and the verdict is that there

will be a ban on political clubs of any kind.”
It was on this information that the People’s Weekly, the Gateway
and other newspapers published their accounts of the alleged ban.
An organization meeting of the new club had been called. It

had to be cancelled because Mr.
against such a meeting.

Bronson was informed of a ban

The students interested in forming the CCUF branch at Alberta
are now waiting for a clear-cut statement on the matter. If there
is nothing in the way of forming their Club they want to know it.

“We are ready to start all over again,’ Mr. Bronson told the

People’s

Weekly on \vednesday. He

intimated that the C.C.F.

students had given no one any indication that they were satisfied
to have the Political Science Club take the place of organization of
their own Club, although of course they will co-operate whole-
heartedly in the Political Science Club.

But the mystery of to be banned or not to be banned still hangs
around the walls of learning at the U. of A.

When our genial and energetic
President of the Alberta C.C.F.,;
farmer Ernie Cook, was on_ his
way to Kitscoty one day a while

ago, he saw two other men of
like occupation chatting together
at the side of the road. He stopped
and spoke with them about the
crops and this and that, and they
asked him where he lived and
what he was doing there. So he
told them he was on his way to
a C.C.F. convention and then in-
quired about whether there were
any C.C.F.’ers in that neighbor-
hood. Sure, they said, half a mile
down the road and through a
gate and along by a coulece, Jim
So-and-so who lives there is C.C.F.
“How about you fellows?” Ernie
asked with that engaging smile of
his. “Well, I guess that’s what we
must be now, eh Bill?” one said,
and the other assented. Where-

upon Mr. Cook produced his
membership book, and we had
two new members. What about

others in the neighborhood, our
head man warted to know. He
got an answer which probably
applies in many parts of the prov-
ince. “I don’t know whether
they’ra C.C.F. or not,” said onc of
the men, “but I don’t think they’re
atything else. They're probably
waiting as, we did for somebody
to come along.” “That's right,”
said the other man, “not mapy of
@s are self-starters, but an organ-
izer coming in here could get a

lot of €.C.F. members.”
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Now whore does that leave us?
Just, I suggest, where we have
been right along, or for the past
year at least. The material for a
freat province-wide C.C.F. organ-
‘zation is right there waiting to be

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Using S.C. Asa
“Trojan Horse” in

Quebec—Jolliffe

OTTAWA—The Drew-Duples-
sis axis, which ruined the Domin-
ion-provincial conference and
thereby sabotaged Canada’s great
opportunity to achieve economic
unity, is now employing Social
Credit as a ‘‘Trojan horse” in
Quebec, E. B. Jolliffe, Ontario
provincial leader, charged at an
Ottawa dinner in honor of Sam
Watson, British @abor Party rep-
resentative, on December 2.

ENGINEERS FROM
INDIA STUDYING
ONTARIO HYDRO

TORONTO. — The world-wide
fame of Ontario’s great Hydro-
electric System is illustrated by
the arrival here of engineers from
Nepal, an independent Indian na-
tion. They are asking the Hydro
Commission for advice on con-
struction of the Kosi Dam, which
will be one of the world’s largest,
and will produce light and power
for millions of people who have
never had those modern benefits.

“The Ontario system is the one
most beneficial to the little man,”
said A. N. Khosla, head of the dele-
gation. “That's what we are aim-
ing for in India—inexpensive
power which . will allow India's
millions to catch up avith the rest
of the world in living standards.”

OTTAWA, (CPA).—<According
to the Australian Information Of-
fice here, the Australian Labor
government intends to establish
training centres, in) which the
natives of Northern Australia—
the aborizines—will be trained in

general pastoral werk, fishing
parsuits and bush saw-milling.
When training 1a completed, a

pooling system will bo gstablished,
under which tho natives can bo
gmpbloyed in usefi occupation.

EDMONTON, ALBERTA, SATURDAY DECEMBER 14, 1946

‘I’m cutting down to aid the starvin

OTTAWA, (CPA).—The
has just issued a report on the

more significant figures:

Mooney Recommends
Canada Admit Jews

George S. Mooney, chief exe-
cutive officer of UNRRA in
Europe has recommended that
Canada admit “a reasonable num-
ber” of Jews who are displaced
persons in Europe and stated that
“both the interests of humanity
and the interests of Canada would
thereby be served.”

VANCOUVER UNIONS
BACK TOM ALSBUR

Prices and Profits Up
Employment,

during the first nine months of 1946. Here are some of the

First Nine Months

: 1945 1946 Decrease —
Cost of Living Index 119.48 122.5 + 2.7
Dividends ................ $172,982,605 $202,553,991 +17.1
Employment General 16.5 170.3 — 3.5
Aggregate Weekly

Payrolls .......... 143.2 138.6 — 3.2

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Wages Down

Dominion Bureau of Statistics
economic conditions in Canada

Per Cent
Increase +

FARMERS WANT TO
PLAN PRODUCTION

OTTAWA, (CPA).— Farmers
of Canada plumped for security
and planning at the Dominion-
Provincial conference in Ottawa
last week.

With a sober eye to long-term
contract trading, especially with
the United Kingdom, representa-
tives of provincial and federal
governments and of farm organi-
zations, led by the Canadian Fed-
eration of Agriculture, consider-
ed the production of feed grains
ibasic problem and coneluded
that an acreage bonus for barley
of about $5 an acre was one of

VANCOUVER.—Last week the|the answers.

Vancouver and New Westminster
District Trades and Labor Coun-
cil (AFL-TLCC) pledged support
to A. T. “Tom” Alsbuey, C.C.F.
candidate for Vancouver mayor.
The endorsement followed in-
troduction of a resolution by
Dick Osman, business agent of
Local 692, Machinists’ union,
Tom Alsbury is n delegate to
tho council from the Vancouver
Secondary Tonchers’ -kssociation,
The council also endorsed Ron
Mneaulay, Shoot Metal Workers’
delegate, who is a C.C.F. candidate
for the Park Board, and Jack
Hondorson, Operating Engineers’
business agent, fer School Board.

This would compensate, West-
ern farmers felt, for the freight
subsidy .which B.C. and Eastern
livestock producers receive on
prairle-grown feed grains. Many
prairie farmers have felt that the
freight subsidy discriminated
ugainst their own livestock opera-
tiens in the, past,

Balieve in Planning

Delegates generally were mind-
ful of floor prices and control
subsidies as the basis of farm
prosperity. The only dissident
note cam& from Ontario’s Con-
gervative minister of agriculture,

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FEKLY

$2.00 Per Year: 3 Years $5.06

VOTE IN

‘Majority of

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Voters for

e-Government

—_—.

After 11 Years in Office Labor
Vote is Boosted from
47% to 51%

By MAURICE KITCHING,
CPA Correspondent

WELLINGTON, N.Z.—Despite
international newspaper attempts
to give a contrary impression, the
lesson of the general election held
in New Zealand on November 27,
is that the majority of the people
here still favor the Labor Govern-
ment and its policy of sensible
socialism.

These are the facts:

It was practically a two-party
election—Labor against the old
Tory party under the new name
of “National” party. In the 80
electorates there were only 12
candidates, including 3 Commun-
ists, who were not either Labor
or “National.” The people’s dis-
regard for them is shown by the
fact that all 12 forfeited their
deposits of £10 for failing to poll
one-quarter of the votes cast for
the winning candidate.

In the old House of Representa-

tives the Government had 44
seats, the Opposition 35, and
there was one Independent.

On the first count of votes,
made on election night, the Gov-
ernment was returned with 43
seats. The Opposition got 3&7,

It was on this reduction of Gov-
ernment strength by one and the

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IT’S EASY WHEN
SOMEBODY TRIES

That it is easy to get members
for thé Alberta C.C.F. Radio
Club has been demonstrated in
a very practical way by Mr.
A. Isakson of Camrose, who
sent in eighteen names last
week, all paid up.

It will require receipts each
week of at least the amount of
money recorded below to sustain
the present program. The five-
minute C.C.F. broadcasts are
now being given on Tuesday at
10:30 p.m. from CJOC, Leth-
bridge; Saturday at 6:15 from
CFAC, Calgary and Saturday at
10:15 from CJCA, Edmonton.

Contributions this week:

A. Boyea ooo... iecec le eeeeeeeeee $1.00
J. V. Sandberg ...0............ 2.00
J. B. Lidstone ..........0..... 5.00
G. (Ge An ckeaknee cs. 2.00
Lacombe ..........cccceeeeeeeececee 1.00
J. Brosch ..........0.00. cece eee 1,00
Collected by A. Isakson,
Camrose:

Winnerstrom = ..........2.. eee. 1.00
T. Krogstad .........0... ce 1.00
W. A. Adamson .....0..0000.... 1.00
F. Adamson 2.00.2... cece 1.00
G. Robertson 2.0.0.2... 1.00
A. Olson .oo.. cece 1.00
S. Barua o.....2 eee 1.00
Ni ce gle ee 1.00
M. Nagel ......0000 cn 1.00
B. Thomson oo... 1.00
Ly Nelson oo... ccceceecces 1.00
Aw Friend oo... cccceeeccenes 1.00
FE. Marken occ. 1.00
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_ DECEMBER 14, 1946

PEOPLE’S WEEKLY

“The Divine Right
Of Capital ?

By C. E. Ayres, Professor of
Economics, University of Texas.

P the introduction of a com-

prehensive program “of social
security within the framework of
the capitalist system. This is a
radical departure in economic
thinking and is directly contrary
to the views of the greatest living
authority on social security, Sir
William Beveridge. Ayres comes
to his conclusion by maintaining
that depressions have occurred
under capitalism because of the
failure ‘‘to distribute mass-con-
sumer purchasing power in suf-
ficient quantity to permit the
entire product of industry to be
purchased.”

Public works he finds inade-
quate to remedy this deficiency.
Social security measures coupled
with steeply graded income taxa-
tion, he maintains, provide the
means whereby purchasing power
of the masses can be increased
sufficiently to keep the wheels
of industry turning _ steadily.
“Whatever reduces the flow of in-
come to large incomes will help
sustain full employment, and what-
ever increases the flow of income
to small incomes will help sus-
tain full employment.”

“Limited Capitalism”

He recognizes that his proposals
mean an abandonment of what he
cals “absolute capitalism” for
what he terms “limited capital-
ism.” ‘‘Whether businessmen real-
ize it or not—and while some
seem to do so, others certainly
do not—in committing themselves
to a policy of full employment
they are abandoning absolute
capitalism.”

Prof. Ayres’ argument involves
a denial of the theory so ably put
forward by the late Lord Keynes
(and accepted by so many present
day economists) that one of the
chief causes of depressions was the
fatal hiatus between saving and
investment. This denial he de-
liberately and boldly makes.

In the light of his theories he
considers the financing of indus-
trial growth, the incentive to
create, economic freedom, mono-
polies and their socialization, full
employment and full production.

Students of socialist economics
particularly, will find in the book
a new and interesting suggestion
for the overhauling of capitalism
that it may be rid of its most seri-
ous defects,

ROFESSOR AYRES main-
tains that full employment
can best be achieved by

C. N. Revenue Drop
But Still a Profit

MONTREAL. — Operating re-
venues for the Canadian National
Railways System, all-inclusive, for
the month of October amounted
to $87,529,000: Operating ex-
penses were $33,226,000, The net
revenue .was $4,303,000. In Octo-
ber, 1945, revenues were $36,-
631,000; expenses, $31,205,000;
and net revenue $5,426,000.

To provide for the recent retro-’

active wage increase of ten cents
an hour, October expenses have
been charged with $2,600,000 and
the aggregate with $7,800,000.
For the first ten months of the
year, operating revenues were
$327,647,000; operating expenses
$292,962,000; and net revenue,
$34,685,000. ‘Fhe comparative fig-
ures for 1945 are: revenues $363,-
$51,000; expenses $296,452,000;
and net revenue $67,499,000.

Hveryone in Alberta should be
X-rayed annually tor twbercutosis
because early discovery of the
disease

means early: recovery.
Mass X-ray surveys aro financed
largely through the sale of

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FOR EVERYBODY
EVERYWHERE
Editor, People’s Weekly.

Sir: It is apparent that the
only foundation on which univer-
sal peace can be established is on
that of equity and justice for all
irrespective of race,
color or creed. What was divine
and civilizing in Christianity was
its universalism, the doctrine
which teaches that all men are
created equal in the sight of Goa,
and are ruled by one God with one
law over all men, That was a
revolutionary idea in human his-
tory, but the rise of the nation
states has caused it to fail as a
civilizing force. It is nearly 2000
years ago that the Shepherds re-
lated that — “Good-will toward
men” had something to do with
“Peace on Harth.’?’ We have not
only lost sight of this connection
as a nation but in our every day
lives as citizens. Therefore—let
us on the dawn of another Christ-
mas, resolve to translate into our
everyday lives the real meaning
cf Christmas and thus help to
usher in the day when it may be
said that Christmas is for every-
body everywhere.

GEORGE K. MacSHANE,

Red Deer, Alberta.

PRIVATE ENTERPRISE
WASTEFULNESS
Editor, People’s Weekly.

Sir: Recently there occurred in
the Crowsnest Pass a situation,
where the production of a number
of coalmines was stopped through
a breakdown of the single source
of power supply to these mines
by a snow storm and blizzard.
It was a case of all the eggs being
in one basket. As conditions were
when this happened coal was in
short supply, and the demand was
for all that the mines could pro-
duce. This is one occasion at
least where striking miners could

not be blamed, but if they badd:

been striking the newspapers
would have given it a great deal
of publicity, and how.

That during a time when very
cold weather had set in, mines
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That these mines discarded
their woefully inefficient but reli-
able steam plants for producing
their own power in favor of an
outside source hydro-produced
mostly, but still with a standby
plant which uses steam and coal
is an interesting fact, and it will
be quite safe to say, that this
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inefficient ways that character-
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anything like an efficient. up-to-
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around a coal mine, if it still has
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By H. ZELLA SPENCER |
AST WEEK I was commenting
that our Provincial Govern-
ment was like many people—very
conscious of the duty of others
to them but not quite so wide
awake to their opportunities to
help. This was made very evident
if anyone followed the resolutions
of the recent School and Munici-
pal conventions, for example. No
doubt there are other reminders
but the agenda of these two or-
ganizations came to my attention
and they made it very obvious that
these two governing bodies did
not feel the Provincial Govern-
ment was measuring’ up to its re-
sponsibilities. And of course we
have all heard and read the very |
vehement protest of the Provin-|

life more attractive and congenial
by the modernization of farm
homes and rural dwellings; and

“Whereas electric power is con-
sidered to be one of the chief
factors in any scheme of modern-
ization, and

“Whereas it is felt that any
scheme of rural] electrification can
best be planned, designed and con-
structed by the Provincial Gov-
ernment on a province-wide basis
and in such a manner that it will
serve’ as many residents as can
practically and reasonably be
served;

“Therefore be it resolved that
we again urge the Provincial
Government to immediately initi-
ate a plan of rural electrification
that will be owned, controlled and

cial administration about the very operated : by the province as a
shabby treatment they insist they public utility.

are getting from the federal gov-
ernment in matters financial.

The School Trustees, I said,
were of course again protesting
about the small provincial grant
of less than 25% of the cost of
primary and secondary education
which the Provincial Government
gives instead of some fifty per
cent as is the case in some of the
other provinces. The Municipal
convention again protested about
the continuation of the Social
Service tax imposed by the prov-
ince and which bears very heavily
indeed on the rural districts.

And that was not the only
place where the Municipal conven-
tion thought the Provincial Gov-
ernment was not measuring up.
They protested that the Alberta
Guvernment was not coming to
the help of the rural districts as
it should and could in the matter
of developing the electrical power
of the Province. I shall copy one
of their resolutions which was
adopted unanimously in regard
to this matter and you will then
be absolutely certain that the de-
mand hasn’t been just a little
whim of Mr. Roper’s. I must say,

it does sound very C.C.F.’ish
though:
. ‘Whereas there is an_ever-

increasing demand to make rural

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GOOD LEGISLATION

HERE IS NO law in the province of Alberta to compel

any owner of a motor vehicle to insure his car, his person
or the public against loss which may be caused by the opera-
tion of the machine. A considerable number of car owners
do carry insurance, at substantial cost to themselves. An
equal number do not. The latter have no protection them-
selves, and, what is worse, the public have no protection
either.

In Saskatchewan every motor vehicle owner, driver or
passenger, and every other person in the province, is
insured against loss by an accident in which a motor vehicle
is involved. The insurance is part of the license fee. The
fee has been increased for this purpose by a fraction of the
amount which similar insurance would cost the individual
driver. It is only $5.00 per year for a vehicle and $1.00 for
a driver.

The value of this legislation has been demonstrated in
less than one year to be one of the most popular laws in
the neighboring province. Moter vehicle owners are now
clamoring for an extension of the plan to provide other
coverage, such as coliision. When public liability insurance is
carried so cheaply for the motor vehicle owner—and with
profit to the rrovince—motorists cannot see why the whole
field should rot be covered.

There is giowing demand for the same sort of protection
in Alberta. Waen opposition members raised the question
last year in the legislature Premier Manning said his gov-
ernment didn’t want to do anything that would be compulsory.
But the recent Social Credit eenvention passed a resolution
asking for compulsory automobile insurance for the protec-
tion of the public.

VOL. XXVII. NO. 16 December 14, 1946

PROGRESS IN U.N.

USSIA HAS agreed that inspection and control machin-

ery regulating arms restrictions can be free of the
hig-power velo. The organization to be set up within the
framework of the Security Council for this purpose will be
autonomous and clothed with full authority. An unequivocal
declaration by V. M. Molotov, Soviet Foreign Minister, is
reported from New York to have cleared the way for a
major advance toward world arms limitation.

There is a lesson in this development which should not
be missed. The persistent deadlocks characterizing so many
UN proceedings have resulted in a growing disillusionment
among the peoples of the world. In the absence of greater
co-operation among the Big Powers, hope for building ¢
lasting peace seemed to be slipping beyond the grasp of
nations. Yet the possibility of achieving greater co-operation
appeared to be fading.

Too often responsibility for the deteriorating situation has
been placed solely on the shoulders of Russia. And indeed,
it must be said that even when Soviet representatives put
forward constructive proposals, their impact has been
lessened by the truculent manner in which they were put for-
ward. A daiigerous proportion of the public had come to the
conclusion that it was impossible to build an international
organization with Russia. The spectre of exactly what that
would mean was chilling the souls of thinking men and
women, But no people have more to gain from peace than
Russia; and it is now clear that her leaders are willing to
compromise to build a United Nations.

“RUIN” IN SASKATCHEWAN

MBEING ALL allowances for fortuitous circumstances,

it is still a very remarkable record of debt reduction
that was reported from Saskatchewan last week. With
$70,562,000 cut from the debt in two years the annual
interest bill has been reduced by more than three million
dollars. The per capita debt has been reduced from $252
in 1944 to $169.

It is interesting to see the splurge made. about this by
such papers as The Financial Post. A C.F. government
in Saskatchewan was to be a calamitous thing, according
to the Post in 1944. The province would suffer financial
ruin. Its credit would crash around the ears of the innocent
investors in the province's bonds. It was toe, too bad!

And now Saskatchewan bonds, which were bringing $88
in 1944 are selling for $105. The average price of
Saskatchewans in August, 1944, was $92.43, -Now the
average is $107.07. How do we know? Why, we read if in
the November 80th, 1946, issye of The Financial Post!

And when a $5,000,000 bond issue came due-last month

the province paid off $2,000,000 in cash and refunded thel.

balance, at 314%. The whole issue was sold in less than an
hour and brokers in Winnipeg and Torosto nearly burned
up the long distance wires begging to get a piece of the
business from the “ruined” province. . : ag ee

THE
THIRD

COLUMN j/The Nature of the Kingdom.

REGIMENTATION?

The Canadian Social Crediter,
December 5, 1946:

“In Ontario, things were
dynamic and lively. In a sensa-
tional move, delegates to the
Ontario convention “(of the Social
Credit League) literally kicked
out red tape and a_ top-heavy
executive, replacing this by a two-
man executive and a ‘work-or-get-
out’ policy for all. J. A. Fitz-
gerald, a lumber king, well known
in the business world, has become
president. He has been noted be-
fore for his blasts against totali-
tarianism and Godless atheism. . .

“Most radical move of the new
organization was their insistence
that ‘unless you work, you don’t
vote.’ It is compulsory for a Social
Crediter to sell at least ten dol-
lars’ worth of subscriptions to
either this paper (The Canadian
Social Crediter) or ‘Vers Demain’
before he will be recognized on
the floor of the next convention.”

THE COMING DEPRESSION

The Western Producer,
September 12, 1946:

“According to opinions
gathered by the Christian Sci-
ence Monitor from economists
and other classes of business ex-
perts a depression will begin
towards the end of 1947. This
depression will come it is said
because sixty per cent of the
nation’s purchasing power is in
the hands of only ten per cent
of the people.”

CANADA'S “LUXURY”
BUILDING

The Financial Post,
October 5, 1946:

“As Canada enters the fourth
quarter of Postwar Year I, and
the closing weeks of the 1946
building season, about $90 millions
of ‘non-essential’ construction is
proceeding without let or hin-
drance in the proportion of one-!
to-three of essential construction.

‘Somewhere around 3,500 ‘jon-
essential’ construction projects
valued at close to $90 millions
now are under way across Canada,
according to best available esti-
mates. In the eight months to
August 31, something over 3,000
such jobs valued at about $75 mil-
lions were undertaken, according
to the authoritative MacLean
Building Reports Ltd.

“Apart from the supply priority
certificates granted by Ottawa to
government-approved and nation-
ally organized house building,
there is no channeling of construc-
tion capacity into the housing
field. Main result is that emphasis
in construction awards and pur-
chasing has taken an_ untimely
drift from the residential category
to commercial and_ institutional
building.”

*

THE GREEN PASTURES

Time, December 9, 1946:

“The flow of bright young
Canadians to the greener pas-
tures of the U.S. was increasing.
In Ottawa last week, the U.S.
Embassy veveated that between
June 1945 and October 1946,
24,054 native-born Canadians
migrated to the U.S.—nearly
twice the prewar average. At
least another 5,000 non-native
Canadians went with them.
Some 3,600 of the emigrants
were scientists, technicians and
exécutives. And for every appli-
cant who got a visa, another was
turned dawn.

‘“‘Money was one reason fot
the trek. income taxcs were
lower in the U:S., wages and
salaries far higher. (The aver-
age hourly wage in manufactur-
ing in Canada is 70c; in the’
U.S., $1.11.) ;

. ‘But money was nét the only
factor. Said a Toronto Iron
Works official: ‘The reluctance
of Canadian businessmen to
give young men their heads is
a greater drawback than any
salary differential’.”

. PEOPLE’S WEEKLY

DECEMBER 14, 1946

- FOOTPRINTS -

By J. P. Griffin

“You plump creatures, you have
pushed the lean sheep aw y with

your sides and shoulders, butting’

at these feeble creatures with
your horns till you have scattered
them abroad.”

understood in the days that

lie ahead that the Govern-

ment of Alberta masquerad-
ing under a social name has an
anti-social nature. It has rapidly
fallen away from the promise it
held out to a trusting electorate
as a curb upon the operations
of Big Business, and now with
every passing month shows itself
to be increasingly Tory, ready to
sell out to anyone for an accept-
able mess of patronage.

Of particular danger too is
the pose of spiritual leadership
adopted by some of its members.
To far too many people the ability
to reel off a string of proof-texts
is the hall mark of religion. These
unhappily may have no more
meaning in terms of truth, justice
or mercy to the quoter, than the
arguments advanced by criminal
lawyers in’ defence of a client
whom they know to be guilty of
the crime with which he is charged.
According to the record the devil
is good at quoting scripture, and
modern Fascists have proved
themselves to be faithful follow-
ers of the Pharisees who nailed
the Carpenter to a cross.

For: the same type of people
who did him to death 1946 years
ago, are equally ready to vent
their anger on such as apply his
teachings to industrial relations
today. They will not quarrel with

L CANNOT be too clearly

anyone who attacks a disembodied
devil, indeed they will encourage
every manifestation of hatred
against the forces of evil that are
not seen, so that, when the oppor-
tunity comes, they can identify
the saviours of the people with
that hatred, as the Pharisees
sought to identify Jesus with
Beelzebub, and turn the masses
against them.

“Oh Jerusalem that killeth the
prophets,”’ cried Jesus in tones
of sad regret. For they do the un-
forgivable thing! They name the
human agents carrying out the
devilish destruction of human
values. So the Socialist today in
the eyes of the members of the
Alberta Government and its paid
propaganda hirelings, is an ob-
ject of undying hatred and fear.
He tears off the pious mask be-
hind which they are hiding. He
shows that the'race hatred foster-
ed by them is but a dirty cloak
to hide the shameful determina-
tion to compromise with the de-
fenders of Big Business to any
extent, as long as their salaries
are assured.

For this of course there is no
forgiveness. And so the platform,
pulpit and press must be prosti-
tuted to an unceasing campaign
of slander, falsehood and _ mis-
representation against the C.C.F.,
against Socialism, against World
Unity, and insofar as these rep-
resent the mind of Christ, against
Him too. These modern profit-
makers are just as determined as
were their brothers of the Roman
Empire that nothing shall be al-
lowed to interfere with their privi-
lege and power even though it
were Jesus Christ himself.

That Elusive Liberty

By J. E. Cook,

PRESIDENT, ALBERTA C.C.F.

HE COURTS of the United
States of America were
used to determine how far
John L. Lewis and _ his

striking miners could go in the
way of refusal to produce soft
coal.

The soft coal miners have been
operating under an agreement
made some six or eight months
ago. At that time the miners went
on strike and it cost them a great
deal to get the better contract.
The mine owners, however, were
given, without any loss on their
part, a much better position than
they occupied as direct operators
before the strike. The strikers,
in effect, are worse off than be-
fore the strike.

The question has vecome a legal
one and the government of the
United States was upheld in its
contention that the miners are
not at liberty to strike.

Automobile and steel workers
went on strike in Canada. It was
and still is their claim that the
wage increase asked could be
given without a corresponding
increase in prices of commodities.
The price increase, however, was
far more than was needed to cover
the wage increase. The govern-
ments of the United States and
Canada seem easy to persuade
when it comes to commodity price
increases but very difficult to
persuade on the question of wage
increases. :

Gov’t For Private Owners

In Canada, when the -Ford and
steel workers were on strike, the
government of Canada took the
side, almost entirely, of the pri-
vate owners of the industrial
plants affected. The same thing
was and is‘true in the United
States. But in both cases adjust-
ments were made that ensured
no ificrease in cost to the oper-
ators, either as a result of a shut-
down ahd consequent increased
overhead or as a result of in-
creased wages. This was done

either by direct increase in price
or by increased subsidy. It was
done without any great argument
on the part of the owners.

On the very day that the farm-
ers’ non-delivery strike in Al-
berta was ended packing plants
announced a drop in prices of
livestock. The drop was_ sub-
stantial.

Farmers Pay Plenty

When grain deliveries were re-
sumed local agents were notified
that they were to buy with strict
regard to dockage and grade. It
is no secret that although grading
is dune under government super-
vision, grade 4 or 5 at threshing
and delivery. time generally be-
comes grade 2 or 8 later in the
year. Just what the particular
alchemy is, cannot, of course, be
understood by ordinary farmer
laymen. The point is that farmers
in the west paid plenty of com-
pensation for the overhead costs
and dislocation of the business of
the packers and grain companies,
due to a non-delivery strike.

It is accepted without question
by the governments of both Can-
ada and the United States that
private owners of industry have
a need for and an absolute right
to an over-all profit set by them-
selves, failing which they will not
permit production. Certainly in
Canada, our government agrees
and without shame or delay,
moves to establish that position
in so far as owners of industry
are’ concerned. That, seemingly,
is a fundamental, unquestioned

liberty as far as that group of-

Canadians are concerned.

Liberty [npaired
Now like anything else, liberty
has certain definite limitations.
Beyond a certain point in one
direction, liberty becomes special
privilege and license, and in the
ether direction, interference be-
comes control and autocratic pre-
vention. Obviousbhy, if too much is

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DECEMBER 14, 1946

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WITH THE C.CF.

Co-operative Housing 5 MINUTES

in |
Denmark |

By REGINALD SPINK,
CPA Correspondent

N INTERESTING form of

consumer co-operation that

has been highly successful

jin the Scandinavian coun-
tries is the co-operative housing
association.

In Denmark and Sweden these
associations have a fine record in
providing healthy homes for the
people—by the people—at relative-
ly low cost. In Copenhagen, for ex-
ample, the rents of flats and
houses built by the Workers’
Housing Association are 20° per
cent lower than those of corre-
sponding private dwellings.

The society was founded in 1912,
the first block of apartments being
crected the following year. The
capital for this first venture was
raised by loan plus a share capital
of about 60 dollars subscribed by
cach member. Now, however, new
estates are built with the aid of
eam government No money goes into the pockets
, Although, as the recipient of a ape ed ni gre
public funds, the housing associa- ment of loans, and exterior main-
tion is subject to public control, tenance (Interior mnintenanee. 48
each block or estate is a self-con-| 4h, responsi” ility of the tenant).
tained consumer co-operative, with Any surplus goes toward redu-
the tenants owning and adminis- cing rents. In some of the older
Mie Pe ay eer Me er unite they have become so low in
units In Copenhagen, containing al- ee ee benente
together nearly 6,000 dwellings.| go long as the tenant fulfils his
Most of these are apartment flats,
since they are the traditional form
of Danish housing, but nowadays
terrace houses are built as well. Delegates In

The four-roomed house which I
occupied on one of these estates at ax a er
the beginning of the war possessed
all) modern conveniences. Along
with the neighboring houses it was
Saas | Sam Rael house! inl convention in Calgdry last

The association has frequently udu nS eva ees
set the pace in the application of ee Piles ees
new ideas in design and equipment, pee oi ariaatt a oe

To obtain a house in a co-opera- pbiectea. of ‘he ene ee
ane a it - ee Payers’ Association. Indignation

ry to become & member. Member-| was voiced over the tactics and

, or ;
sleet IP Solara ttn ements, employed, by hse
small sum of one dollar. Not later eee eiconeeitin a bob
than a year after joining the mem-|ijely owned organizations. The
ber must subscribe a membership] Mops were urged “to continue
rae AT po et which is] working until the Income Tax
y 5 ; ' , wo! ra ny ? +. ,

Members are entitled to a house ea een nas Been Fay
or apartment in order of length of *
membership (according to mem-
bership number), though existing The convention called on the
tenants have priority for new] provincial government to ensure,
vacancies. Some blocks are also re- in any transfer of income tax
served for large families. power to the federal government

4% Dividend that may be perce’ pe se
tive assurances be written into

On obtaining a house or Apart-) such agreement guaranteeing in
ment the member subscribes a ten-| fyture:
ant’s share, which generally cor- |
responds to about nine month's! | Pe ea ie sas. ‘hye
rent. This share, repayable if the} ee oe the tae eta B =
member ceases to be a tenant, gives | sce ae ms ee ; ees a
a dividend of 4 per cent per annum. | Br eee bye
The payment of shares may be be-|_ (>) that’ breeding herds be
wun on joining the association by recognized as u capital asset; and
opening a savings account. that in the case of proceeds from

The share of the individual mem- | dispersal sales over and above this
ber in the society's liabilities is lim- capital. aaset, the farmer pee Pet
ited to his member's subscription | mitted to average the income from
of ten dollars. His share of the lia-| Ben eaten ‘aver a period of three
bilities of the local unit is his ten-|#™s for income tax purposes;
ant’s share capital. No co-opera-| (c) that allowance be made for
tive housing association in Den. | the labor of farmers Wives, sons
mark has ever failed. land daughters in connection with

The local units are self-contained production on the farm; :
and are not mutually responsible |. ” that . the exemption, “ior
for their liabilities, or collectively aan i be raised to $1,000
responsible for the liabilities of the o a vat EOE married persons to
association as a whole. $2,000-00;

Each unit holds its own annual
general meeting, at which the ten-| 4.0,
ants elect their representatives to ; :
the central assembly, and their! - Support UNO
local management committee. Pledging loyal gupport to the

This committee is responsihle,| United Nations Organizagion “in
with the assistance and supervision} all honest efforts to maintain the
of the central committee, for the! peace of the world,” the conven-
complete day-to-day management|tion also pointed to the fact that
of the unit's affairs, Canada is now ent?rely indeyeend-

Housing of the tenants, for the'ent and totally responsible in the

repayment of loans, and exterio

tenants, by the tenants is thus an
established fact.

Almost Rent Free

Modern Conveniences

C.C.F. delegates at the provin-

Income Tax

(a) that the income of a farm-

Housing of the tenants, for the tenants, by the tenants, is an
established fact in Denmark. No money goes into the pockets of
private landlords. The rents are fixed to cover interest and

toward reducing rents. In some of the older units they have

become so low in the course of tim
almost rent free.

(g) that the Dominion Govern- |
ment provide a board of arbitra- |
. !

| Radio Address by Elmer E. Roper, M.L.A,
Provincial Leader

F YOU ARE a farmer and you} municipalities in the areas. They
had an accident and had to'charge $5.50 a year and one and
be taken to a hospital and/one-half mills on the tax rate
kept there for months with!and that takes care of the total
a crushed leg; or if you or a|cost of hospitalization, doctor's
member of your family became il! | bills and other health services.
and had to be hospitalized for a'! Albertans Pay Anyway
long time; or if you are a city There is about enough paid in
worker and had to go to a city;}doector and hospital bills in
hospital for a month, or six] Alberta to meet the cost of pro-
months—there’d be a pretty big|viding health services for every-
bill to pay, a bill which might|one. Only some people pay far
cripple you financially for the} more than they can afford, be-
rest of your life. That is, if you|cause they happen to be sick or
live in Alberta. get hurt, while others pay little or
But if you lived in Saskatche-| nothing. The way to ensure health
—CPA | wan it would be a different story. | services for all, at little cost to
There you’d have paid five dol-| anyone, is to spread the cost over
lars to the hospital fund, as your] everybody. Everybody pays a
yearly dues. And that would be] little, whether they use the health
all. You wouldn’t get any other] services or not, and of course
bill, for your public ward hospital} everyone hopes that they won't
bed, or for operating room charges| have to use them. But it’s worth
or drugs or special diets. more than the cost of universal
The Saskatchewan C.C.F. gov- | health services to have the assur-
ernment has been in office a | ance that if you must have a ‘doc-
little more than two years, but |tor, or go into a hospital, there
it has done more along the line | won’t be a crippling bill at the
of providing health services for |end of tle experience.
the people than any other gov- C.C.F. Keeps Its Word
b : : as ernment of Canada has ever The C.C.F. has been talking
and other Scandinavian erties, by done. about this kind of a scheme since
the application of co-operative The hospital scheme, to provide|its formation fourteen years ago,
principles to housing. . free hospitalization for every] And the fact that the Saskatche-
; In Denmark, co-operative hous- resident of the province, is only|wan government in two years has
ing associations have become SO! one of the steps toward a com-| put this part of its platform into
powerful that Government subsi- plete health service through which| operation is proof that it is not
dies are now almost exclusively not only the hospital, but all! only workable, but that a C.C.F.
confined to such societies and to| medical treatment will be free| government will carry out its
similar self-governing associations] +, the patient. pledges to the people.
whose profits are devoted to the Health Regions We have never come before
building of more houses. Provision is made by the Sas-|the people with any fantastic pro-
katchewan government for the] posals which ordinary people are
setting up of ‘health regions| not supposed to be able to under-

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through which municipalities can|stand. Our proposals represent a
j nan f VAP arrance for complete free health} common-sense appiication of prin-
= = = | services to all the residents of the|ciples that have already been

area. Now when we use the word] proven. For example, when I was

a
“free” in such a case it is used] writing this in my home last night
Ssii ac i S in the same way that we talk of|I had an electric light on at my
= free education. Of course nothing | desk. Now, I couldn’t afford, by

is really free. It has to be paid| myself, to have electric light in
matter of foreign policy, and] for in some way. But just as there!my home. But because all the
called upon C.C.F. members of]is free education for the child] neighbors, and a hundred thou-
parliament “to insist, as they have| who goes to a public school, so is|sand other people in this city have
done in the past, that foreign|there free medical treatment and| electric light, we can all get it
policy be given priority on thelhospitalization for the patient|cheap enough to afford it. And
agenda of the House of Com-| under a public health scheme such| that’s the way it is with health
mons and be not left to the] as we are talking about here. services, and other services about
dying hours of the session as was] Two health regions have been! which we will talk in other broad-
done this year.”’ set up in Saskatchewan by the| casts.

r maintenance. Any surplus goes

that the tenants now live

obligations to the association, he
possesses complete security of ten-
ure, and cannot be evicted. '

Such are the benefits obtained
in Copenhagen, as in Stockholm

The delegates deplored a ‘‘most
poisonous campaign of war mon-
gering and unjustified attacks on
the Soviet Union” appearing in
the Canadian press. They branded
it as a “very dangerous develop-
ment” in the face of possible
atomic war and urged C.C.F.
members and parliamentary rep-
resentatives “to do all in their
power to counteract this develop-
ment and = expose all rumor-
mongering and sensational propa-
ganda, detrimental to the peace
of the country.”

“INVEST IN REST”
Supersoft
Spring filled Mattresses

Insist on “SUPERSOFT” Furniture Products
Made in Alberta

(A further report on resolu-
tions passed at the convention will
be continued next week.)

Featuring LELGIN Watches

and Reliable Waterproof Watches

Watch Repairs Jewellery
“Blue Charm” Diamonds

Mail Orders Given Prompt Attention

WOODSWORTH HOUSE,
OTTAWA

Owing to financial appeals
being made in most provinces
in Canada the National Office
drive to raise the capital cost
of Woodsworth House is being
delayed till 1947. Hawever,
- friends of the movement are
sending remittances to help us
reach our objective. The follow-
ing letter has been received
from friends in Winnipeg:
“Enclosed is a money
order for $50. This money
was raised’ by myself and
four other women by -holding
a silver tea and bazaar at my
home on November 16. |
hope ‘that our C.C.F. sup- -
porters all over Canada, will
support Woodsworth House.”
“Does this project suggest
someting that might be under-
taken in your community?
A. M. "Nicholsgr, M.P.,
C.F. National Treasurer.

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RHYMES OF A REAL CROSS MAN

We will not stand for Ottawa ©
To take our sacred rights;

Nor any sign of planning;
Nor any federal slights. -

We will not stand for being’ bessed
(But if we must — a speck)

We much prefer Toronto
Or better still — Quebec.

We cannot stand for Ilsley
(That tax-collecting rat)

And King — that rabid socialist—
Is even worse than that.

We hate the whole caboodle

And everything, they

The only leaders we can stand

spacious Northern

Besides ourselves, you understand,
Are Duplessis and Drew.

Throughout this

We'll not be regimented,
Nor yet be centralized
By any scheme that Ottawa
Has ever yet devised.

We will not take direction
(But if you think we should)
We'd rather take it from Quebec
Or Toronto — The Good,

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U.S.S.R,

Mascenmmeee:

President

Seana ed

Ivan Vlassov, new president of

Soviet of the
who suc-
Kalinin.

the Supreme
Russian Federation,

ceeds the late Mikhil

A BIT OF
Nonsense

A young couple asked the par-
son to marry them immediately
following the Sunday morning
service. When the time came the
minister arose to say:

“Will those who wish to be

The leadership of chaos

Will go to him who

fights.

We’ll purge what’s “Left” of Canada

With our sacred Bill

of “Rights.”

We plan to have no planning
(But if it’s the thing to do)

We’d rather Mr. Bracken,
And Duplessis and Drew.

Speed Up Construction in
Large Sask. School Units

REGINA.—One of the most
important developments in the
Biggar and Regina Fast larger
school units is a speeded-up school
construction and repair program,

Education Minister Woodrow
Lloyd said recently. |
Both units have construction

and paint gangs moving from
school to school, said Mr. Lloyd.

Two schools, three barns and
three teacherages have been built
in the Biggar unit, in addition to
extensive repair and paint work.
The Regina East unit bas con-
structed three new schools, a unit
office and a barn and has done
considerable repair work to Inter-
lake school and renovated and
moved a school from Candiac to
Peebles.

Both units are
ance allowances to

paying susten-
high school

students who live some distance
from school. Biggar pays $80 per
year to students who are over five
miles from school, and students
in Regina East receive 50 cents
per day for similar distances.

In the Biggar unit all students

and pre-school children have been
medically examined by the public
health nurse, and arrangements
are now being made for immuniza-
tion. Medical and examination
work will soon be undertaken in
the Regina East unit.

Fach school in the Biggar unit
spent $59 last year for basic
library books, while in the Regina
Fast unit~a circulating library is
now in existence and $2,500 has
been spent on libraries. Neither
unit has a “helping teacher’ but
Biggar has an audio visual teacher
who visits each school in the unit
every six weeks.

Campaign To Cut Down

Farm Accidents in Sask.

REGINA.—A system of report-
ing farm accidents an@ occupa-
tional disenses to the provineial
Nivision of Industrial Hygiene
through municipal eouncils — is
getting under way and first re-
ports indicate the serious nature
of many avoidable accidents, G.
W. Rogers, director of the division,
said recently.

Of the first 47 reports there
were 18 in which there were bone
fractures and eight in which vic-
tims lost a limb or one or more
fingers. During 1944 there were

‘50 fatal farm accidents, half of

them in the uge of machinery and
the other half in handling animals.

he He of reporting: farm acci-
dents lis t® provide a basis of
knowledge for an educrtional
caw?paign designed to cut down
the yemly toll through bringing
to the attention of farmers the
mst common Bazards and daager-
ous practices,

Most municipalities throughout
the province are co-operating in
the reporting system. Farmers re-
port accidents to their councillors
and these are forwarded to the
Division of Industitial Hygiene on
forms supplied by the divisian, %f
farmers report both major and
minor accidents, a true picture of
the farm mishap situasion will be
drawn up.

—_— +

Claim U.S. Navy te
Selling Geod Food
To the Hog Dealers

WA&STINGTON.—lundreds ‘of
éans, of Yegwtables, fruits, ice
cream mix, Vienna sausages and
other items, tincluding 100-paund
gicks of. Bure cane sugar, are being
sold by the nayy for hog feed at
Seattle, acegrdipg to the Times”
of that gity.

united in holy bonds of matrimony
please come forward?”

There was a great stir as 13
women and one man approached
the altar

The good we learn at mother’s
knee. The bad at other joints.

If nothing else, the old codger
was an experienced jury man who
had sat in on many trials. Seeking
to glean some useful information,
an attorney asked him, ‘‘Who in-
fluences you the most—the law-
yers, the judge or the witnesses?”

The old man pondered for a
moment before replying. At last
he drawled: ‘Well, T’ll tell ye.
I’m a plain and reasoning man,
and I ain’t influenced by anything
the lawyers say, nor by what the
witnesses say—no, nor by what
the judge says. I just look at the
man in the dock and I asks my-

self. ‘If he ain’t done nothing
wrong, why’s he here?’ So I
brings ’em all in’ guilty.”’—The

Highway Traveler.

“Brothahs an’ sistahs,’? intoned
the visiting reverend, “Ah got
wif me $1, $2 and $5 sermons.
De deacons will now pass de plate
'so’s Ah kin see which talk yo’
craves.’—The Oil Weekly.

A young Cleveland matron
stalled her car at a traffic light
one winter day. She stamped on
the starter, tried again, choked
her engine, while, behind her, an
impatient citizen honked his horn
steadily. Finally she got out and
walked back.

“Vm awfully sorry, but T don’t
seem to be able to start my car,”
lshe told the driver of the other
car pleasantly. “If you'll go up
there and start it for me, I'll stay
here and Jean on your horn.”

A bad man was shot in a saloon
brawl in Cripple Creek, in the
old days. They buried him; then
everyone stood around the filled
grave expectantly waiting for
someone to say a few, good words
fer the deceased. Al tongues
were silent. At last one man, who
had known the deceased longest,
lifted his hand.
said, with heartfelt feeling, “eV
Jim used ‘to shoot a mighty gvod
hand of marbles as a kid.”

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| wis Weld in Denmark in TN208, the
idea of Kinar flolbowll, a postal
clerk. :

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PEOPLE’S WEEKLY

“Low” ‘Tidings

7

Food, Famine and Fools

By Clifford E. Lee

EVENTY PER CENT of the | are the lives of our own children

human body is water.
Seldom is the supply of
this material cut to the

point of affecting health. But the Dr.

“c

other 80% is essential chemicals.

Very often the supply of these| severe
is deficient, causing various dis-
ruptions

human machine
minor mala-

in’ the
from

from

Our tastes lead us

dies to death. to

Even those who] overwhelming
get plenty to eat] Europe is now a political weapon,
sometimes suf fer|the means by which we may save
malnutrition.| our world.

a few short years hence.

Yet nutrition experts such as

Paul R. Cannon _ declare,
when people are undergoing
malnutrition, neither

slogans, propaganda, nor the fan-
fare of trumpets can induce them

struggle hopelessly
odds.”’

against
Food for

We waste enough food to feed

to omit weertan rie much of Europe. According to the
ments from our diet! Pood Distribution Administration,

which are essential|;, 1942 enough food asted
to health. Education is the only |;, the United Satan RN abbaaeet

required corrective for this. We! the
must learn to buy health, not food| America’s commitments in
lease.

in the grocery store.
Except from actual famine, the

most serious dietary deficiencies our

met
lend-

American Army and

We can produce naturally on
farms the required food.

are related directly to income.|TLittle effective attempt has been
Typical of our social stupidities| nade to plan or encourage agri-
is the fact that the producers of| cultural production for this great

food have suffered from ‘sur
pluses” at the same time that the
consumers suffered from food de-
ficiencies., In the United States,
the world’s wealthiest country, in
its richest year, 1929, 75% of its
people were unable to afford com-
pletely adequate diets. Had they
eaten as they should the farmers
of that country would have had
to produce 70% more milk, 35%
mere heef and poultry, 50% more
sheep, twice as much vegetables
and fruit.

Had we dropped a few atomic
bombs in Europe in polishing off
the Nazis the human damage
could have been no worse than
that being caused by food short-
ages there now. Chances are that
when the score is toted up the
war will have killed more people
by malnutrition and its con-
sequences than by bullets and
bombs.

What will kill most of them is
lack of proteins. Man’s resistance
to disease is provided by anti-
bodies. These keep up a constant
and normally winning fight
against germs. But antibodies are
made of the proteins we derive
i from meat, cheese, eggs, and other
such foods. Without proteins
germs run_ wild. Plague and
pestilence kill the ones who es-
caped the bombs.

Society Will Pay

These consequences persist and
weaken generations yet unborn.
Society, in deteriorated human
mechanisms, will be paying for
generations for the diplomatic
failure that means war as it has
and will pay for the stupidity of
the depression.

It is almost impossible for
North Americans to appreciate
famine as is. stalking war-torn
Europe today. These people look
like our neighbors. They think
the same thoughts. They have the
poame feelings. They have no hope
!of enough food to satisfy hunger
or to prevent many of the diseases
of malnutrition. They have no
chanee of keeping their children
from constantly erying for food.
They are desperately trying only
to keep themselves and their in-
fants alive. Fhey drop in the
streets almest unnoticed. Late as
it ix we must get that picture now.
Migh Stakes

We sre trying te build a new
order in Europe. We are trying to
teach democracy to the victims of
fascism. We are trying to make

another Bitlet ideologically im-
possible. We ere not altogether
lunselfish in this; we know our

jown future in the modern world
is tied in with the future of these
‘people. The stakes in this game

“t humanitarian goal.

Science Can Help

Science can help. In August,
1948, researchers announced a

synthetic beefsteak. Its raw ma-

terials are yeast, water, and
molasses. Ammonia converts the
yeast to protein, provider of

germ-killing antibodies. Labora-
tory beefsteak has the same food
value as the real thing.

Transportation difficulties is
given as the reason that what
most of us would gladly sacrifice
from our own tables has not found
its way into starving stomachs. Yet
the U.S. recently tied up its huge
fleet of warships at the docks.
Thus was lost the chance to ac-
complish more with an armada of
food-laden ships than we ever
did with explosive-laden ones.

Canadians on the whole would
have welcomed greater sacrifices
en behalf of starving humanity.
We would have gone much further

than the minor rationing our
governing representatives laid
down for us.

When Ron _ Gostick, national

secretary of Social Credit, waved
illicit ration coupons and bragged
of breaking the law he made him-
self a crook. When he declared
we should look after our own
desires first and think of dying
Europeans later he was doing
more than expressing a con-
temptible social attitude. He was
being a fool.

For we all have a stake in the
world of the future which is in-
volved in feeding Europe now.

MEMBERSHIP FEE
IS $2.00 NOW

C.C.F. members are remind-
ed that the membership fee for
1947 is now $2.00 a year, the
provincial fee being $1.00 and
the national fee $1.00. The new
rate of fees was endorsed by
both the provincial and national

conventions.

A person eannot become a |
member of a provincial section
without being a national mem- |
ber or a national member with-
out being a provincial member.
A sustaining membership of
$10.00 or more automatically
takes care of the new national
fee of $1.00.

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it’s Canada-Wide!
tt’s An Information-
Entertainment Capsule!

it’s Your New Magazine

“Horizon”

We worned and stewed over
the idea for a long time, didn’t}
we, kids? A little magazine to
fit the pocket and the pocket-;

book of every young Canadian—~
telling them what goes on, the}
ideas that are stirring in’ this
generation, the glamor of citizen-

ship, the ylow of co-operation,
the yreat challenge of democratic
socialism!

We thought inaybe it was too

start we need by clipping and
mailing the subscription blank be-
low, with one dollar, to National
Office.

Make somebody an awfully niee
Christmas present!
“HOREZON"

CCYM National Publication,
301 Metcalfe St., Ottawa.

big a job. Maybe we'd never have
we'd have

our magazine. Maybe
to play around with = penny
mimeos forever,

tut the idea kept us all awake
nights. Finally we just) had to
make the try!

And it's coming out in January,
with thirty pages of youth news,
youth views, youth pictures—-both
French and English, truly Cana-
dian, [It's groing to be good! Every-
body's excited and happy sbout it.

You'll see it early in) January,
if you give us the financial head-

PERSONAL STUFF

(Continued from page 1)

We can't ex-
“solf-starters.”’
all, the new people we
muat have in the C.C.F. in Al-
berta have been in other parties.
They've been opposed to us, or
at any rate they've been support-
ers of parties opposed to us. And
how do they know we want them
in) our movement? At the very
least they may fecl a bit diffident
about coming forward to ask for
a membership. And so if we want
them—and we do, brother!—we
must go after them. And who's
going to do it? Not our two pro-
vinecial organizers, They can't do
more than touch the fringe. Fhe
job, if it is to be done at all, must
be done in cach neighborhood by
the C.C.F. members in that neigh-
borhood.

to come in.
them to be

asked
pect

After

te ob
John King and 1 went to Cam-
rono last Saturday to meet the fine
group of men and women who are
carrying on our movement in that
We great
Camrose. one

conatituency. expoct
things
thing, in the town itself is one of
the best women's organizations in
the province. Mra. McPhee, Mrs.
Falconer and Mra. Adamson, with |
their active, willing helpers
doing a grand job. John King drove
home the need for intensive per-
sonal work by C.C.F. members in|
their neighborhoods. He told of |
one member in the Fotestburg
district who sent in forty mem-
berships this year. John had sug-
gested to him that it take
quite a bit of his time. “It doesn't
take any time,” be replied, ‘'P juss
use the time I'd be talking to
people anyway, to talk some
about the C.C.F., and it's not hard
to get their memberships.” Now iff

from For

are

must

10164 - 1018t St

I enclose the sum of $..........0.0.......

for ; years subscription
to “Horizon.”

Subscription rate: $1.00 a year
(ten copies).

Name of subscriber

Address

City

Province

every C.C.F. member in the prov-
ince used his or her opportunities
to obtain new recruits—they
wouldn't have to get forty, or
thirty, or even ten to give us the
biggest membership of any politi-
cal movement in Alberta's history.

Os

So we're trying to make this a
“nersonal work” year in the Al-
berta C.C.F.—a year in’ which
“letting George do it'’ will be left
out of our calculations entirely.
The approach is to be, not ‘what
is the C.C.F. doing to organize
this constituency,” but, ‘‘what am
I doing to get members in my
neighborhood?” Let's make it a
contest, with some friendly ri-
valry between constituencies and
locals and individuals. I want the
privilege of publishing in this
column the names of every work-
er who obtains ten or more mem-
bers. And so that | can feel that
I am part of the effort I'd like to
send one of the new books, like
“Thunder Out of China,” or Le-
land Stowe's ‘‘While Time Re-
mains,’ to the first man or woman
to become a member of this “Ten-
Members-or-Bust’"’ club. And of
course you won't forget that it is
sustaining memberships = which
keep provincial organization work
going. So maybe the first thing
you should do is send in your own
sustaining membership—$10_ or
And_ then—well, why stop
at ten members? Why not canvass
everyone in your neighborhood?
1 have my pen alt ready to write

some “Personal Stuff" in that
book!

more,

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little previous. At

4Continued from page 2)

increase of Tory strength by two
that anti-Labor newspapers based
theig critical comment.

& Little Previous

But they might have been a
the time of
writing there are 11 electorates—
5 Labor and 6 Opposition—where
the results may be changed by
absentee votes, averaging more
than 1,000 in each electorate,
still to be counted. The candi-
dates in the constituencies have
majorities ranging from 236 down
to only 11 votes.

Se it is yet possible for Labor
to hold its last-Parliament
strength or even increase it,

But even if it does not, few
newspapers will have told you
that 51 per cent of the voters
cast their ballots for the Labor
government.

It is a general rule, for many
reasons, that time tends to run
against any administration, no
matter how good it is.

It was a great credit to Labor,
after 11 years in office, including
the six very difficult war years,
not only to get the support of
more than half the voters but
actually to increase its support
from the 1943 election, when 47
per cent of the voters put it back
into office.

New Zealanders Grateful
It is true that Labor this time

did not poll the record percentage

of 55, which it gained in the
1938 election, but that was an
exceptional achievement which

had never accurred before in New
Zealand and is hardly likely to
occur again. For one thing, that
election took place after 20 years

of peace, at a time when New
Zealand was really a land of
plenty. World War II seriously
disturbed that state of affairs.

But Labor still rules.

One must also remember, in
evaluating the merit of Labor's
recent win, that it has always had
to face the fierce, often shocking-
ly unfair, opposition of almost
every newspaper in the country.
After reading the newspapers,
visitors must be amazed that the
Government is allowed to exist at
all. But it is the newspapers that
are wrong, not the Government,
as the voting in the last four
elections has shown.

Most New Zealanders are grate-
ful for what Labor has done for
them and are confidently hopeful
of what is to come from it.

Farmers Want

(Continued from page 1)

T. L. Kenned,, who said that if
controls were removed, Ontario
would have no difficulty in main-
taining production. He didy’t get
much support from agricultural-
ists across the country who nearly
all spoke with satisfaction of the
holding of the conference to plan
Canada’s agricultural production
as a united whoie.

The Dominijon-Provincial annual
conferences were begun during
the war, and seem destined to be-
come a regular event. The pro-
cedure is to refer recommenda-
tions back to provincial govern-
ment departments, from them to
district agricultural representa-
tives, and from them to local
meetings of farmers, who may
thus plan their individual opera-
tiens in the light of the national
production requirements.

: Recommendations

Some recommendations made by
the conference were:

To decrease wheat aereage
from 25,900,000 (1946 total) to
24,000,008.

To raise more barley for feed,
leaving the wheat fer human con-
sumption, by increasing barley
acreage to 8,000,000 acres in-,
stead of the 6,730,500 acres sown
this year.

To increase oat
About a million acres.

To ,raise the price of flpx to
bring a higher edible oil Supply,
and a better supply of oil cake
for livestock and dairy production,

Want More Hogs

To increase hog production

(which declined 26 per cent this

ucreage by

year) #o 5,176,000 head instead

of the 1946 total of 4,350,000.

In line with the representation
made by the Dairy Farmers of
Canada and the Canadian Fedeta
tion ef Agriculture last week, this
conferenee spoke strongly in favor
of an increase in butterfat an
milk product prices.

TORY -8.C. DEFEND
FREE ENTERPRISE

OTTAWA, (CPA) — Progres-
sive-Conservative and Social Cre-
dit meimbers of parliament were
grouped together as the cham-
pions of free enterprise, in a na-
tional CBC broadcast this week
by Howard C. Green (Vancouver
South) speaking on behalf of the
Conservative party.

Mr. Green charged that ‘auto-
cratic’ control legislation had
been introduced by the Liberal
government last session despite
the fight put up by Social Credit-
ers and Progressive-Conservatives.

“The same thing will happen in
1947,” he predicted.

In the same speech Mr. Green
advocated decreased taxation plus
larger old-age pensions; less gov-
ernment interference with busi-
ness, plus stronger government
action to meet the housing crisis.
He also accused the King govern-
ment of “lacking the drive’’ to
settle the Dominion-Provincial
taxation impasse: though Premier
Drew, Ontario’s Conservative
Premier, has been the most vocal
opponent of the Ottawa plans so
far.

That Elusive

(Continued from Page Four)

granted at the top there must be
severe rationing ut the bottom.
And if the arrangement is one
in which the conclusion is not
reached by negotiation but by
governmental decree, the degree
or share is incidental, and no
matter what the status of the in-
dividual, his liberty has been im-

paired.
Governments which are pre-
pared to establish any certain

position for any one group as a
primary condition before negotia-
tions start, cannot hope to arrive
at an impartial conclusion.

Bad Economic Practices

All strikes today in’ industry
are, in fact, strikes against bad
economic practices, maintained by
a so-called democratic government,
whose impartiality is impossible.
These practices lead to severe in-
equalities of reward as between
individuals in a democratic society.
Such inequalities grow by geo-
metrical progression to the point
of complete economic frustration
and consequent breakdown in ne-
cessary production.

Strike technique is definitely
out of line with present day social
position. Strikes must’ be properly
organized at a proper place.
Strikes must be organized acts of
socially conscious individuals in a
responsible democracy as a whole.
Nothing less can be trusted to do
more than further confuse # com-
plicated situation. People are the
important element in government
and industyy. People may, if they
will, make policy, elect represent-
atives, to implement that policy
and have only one kind of limita-

tion of liberties—voluntary co-
operative limitation fos mutua?
personal benefit.-

Strike With Ballots

¥o work, there must ke a strike
by people with ballots. It requires
only that we know what we want
and that we want enough, Plenty
is not too much, either in liberty
or material wealth, for each of us.
We do not have it because we do
not insist on ite We are be-
fuddled with big words about
something a long way from home
when the answer to the problem
Is Tight here in our hands.

To deny that is to condemn
democracy and to admie the neces-
sity for dictatorship, whedsdser com-
muniet of military. To get along
Without plenty in an economy of
plenty, is a sin. To Rave is to want
more and to get it. Let us develop
a proper strike* gechnique and
begin now because balPot days ang
not far away.

"WARM FAREWELL .
~ TO SAM WATSON
AT CCE. DINNER

OTTAWA, (CPA).—A warm
farewell to Sam Watsoa, British
habor Party executive member
and Durham miner, was extended
at a C.C.¢. dinner in Wooedsworth
House, Ottawa, on December 2,

In his parting address, at the
close of a six weeks’ trip aeross
the nine provinces of Canada, Mr,
Watson spoke of the new bonds
of friendship developing between
the British Labor Party and the
C.C.F. Expressing his pleasure at
the presence of Mrs. Coldwell and
Miss Margaret Coldwell, he re.
ferred to “the wife and daughter

of our teader, and I! say ‘our
leader’ because this movement
does not belong just to Great

Britain nor just to Canada, but
to the democratic socialists of the
world.”

Contrasting the difficult eco-
nomic position of Great Britain

with the vast natural wealth of
Canada, Mr. Watson betrayed

both envy, and impatience with
the Canadian people, who have
failed to take advantage of their
resources to build the abundant
society which could be achieved
here. He urged the C.C.F. to
greater effort in organizing and
educating the people.

Gifts to Sam Watson and to
Mrs. Watson were presented at
the dinner. A. M. Nicholson,

M.P., C.C.F. National Treasurer
who accompanied Mr. Watson on
his tour, expressed the gratitude
of the movement to the British
guest

US. SOCIALIST
CONTRIBUTES TO
THE CCE. FUND

OTTAWA, .(CPA).—A letter
from Idaho, with a financial con-
tribution to the C.C.F., reveals
the hope which socialists of the
United States are placing in the
C.C.F. to lead the way out of
chaos on this continent.

C. E. Robel, of Lewiston, tdaho,
wrote to Woodsworth House in
Ottawa recently:

“Dear Comrades: As I am a
small orchardist my resources are
quite limited. However I am en-
closing $— toward your move-
ment. The way conditions are now
in the U.S.A. I see only Fascism
for us.

“The Communists and_ several
other groups have caused so much
confusion the common people are
completely lost in political perspec-
tive.

“I sincerely hope you in Can-
ada can show the way to real
Socialism.”

CBC Pays Million

Yearly For Talent
OTTAWA, (CPA).— Over a
million dollars a year is paid for
creative talent—actors, writers
and musicians—by the Canadian
Broadcasting Corporation, accord-
ing to A. Davidson Dunton, ehair-
man of the CBC board of gover-
nors.

In an address on October 2 he
said CBC policy is based on the
belief that the air channels be-
long te the public. The CBC,
as custodian of the air-waves, wel-
comes public discussion and letters
to the CBC to help it guage the
desires of different sections of the
population.

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Workers “Sitdown”

WASHINGTON. — America
isn’t alone in having odd and un-
usual strikes. for example, croup-
iers at the Monte Carlo easino in
France went on a “sit@own” re-
cently in a fight for a 8&eent
pay raise. That shut down gamb-
ling in the famous establishment
for the first time in 80 yenrs.

In Britain, a lot of toothackes
went unattended as dentists staged
a“stiike” against the government,
refusing to accept patients under
the nationa) health insurance sys’
tem unless the government prant-
ed them higher fees,

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